Calabar Poems - Poems about Calabar

...I had a girlfriend during my youth service, She was then in love but still a novice, After service, she was called to the bar, Not long after she relocated to her town, Calabar. I stayed back i......

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...I called you my Ruth, but you refused Ruth to Root Your name is like a silver spoon, but you prefer to be called back of a pot that is as dark as charcoal You are Ruthless from birth You have no......

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...Please be informed: The Nigerian youths have agreed together in love and oneness that in 2023 presidential election and in every other elections, whether state or local government. We will not vo......

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...We were told stories Stories of the hunter demon Haunting our children In the dark of the moon The faceless beast A silhouette in the night With a visage defined only By juvenile imagination......

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...Poverty stricken, Defrauding them was unintentional, But the magistrate's judgement and sentence was constitutional. We have been on the street, Hustling, surviving but making money remains stric......

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...All these years, you risked your life endlessly, Protecting me from the cold world effortlessly. You relied on my promises, Kept me clean in my dirty premises, Like a fetus, your love developed c......

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...The sun shall rise again but not in our season of songs this time, because we are strange to it glamouring light. We sparkle and shine not among its Galaxy of hope, an unformidable corrupt yo......

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...I remember my candles in the night My eyes heavy but weightless like light The thought of being a corper my right A pound on my head boom boom The thud of boots and whistle boomerang Shrill cr......

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...In 1934, The Big Drum of goodwill Reeled out pleasant rhythms To the people of the City of Aluu. Unto us, a child is given; Unto us, a warrior is born. Not to interlock hands and arms With gir......

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...Author: Okechukwu Iroegbu Title: Let them hear... Let them hear... From the hills of Isuikwuato My sleepy hilly land'e From my new'est bride Uyo To the ancient muds of Enugu From Makurdi's B......

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...Witches and warlocks gather around, will give you a list of poisons abound… Arsenic, Hemlock, Belladonna you know… Add to your list, these below; Purple Foxglove; Black Hellebore; Deadly N......

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...Clean, green, and grassy Goddesses in the streets Atmosphere lost in lust Tourists appetite satisfied by the goddesses An army of palm-wine cascading from the Duke's town The resurrection of Honesty ......

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...Mother! Mother!! Mother!!! Mighty you are with others, Your son is in another man Slavery. Your beauty as wide as 23, 074.425 s.qkm You lie between Latitude 4.29 north and 5.49 north equator......

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...Calabar, my birth place of adventure The ebb of motherhood There i originated In your tropical forest was my image carved Calabar, your beauty is taller than the palm trees Your dogs barks in the gra......

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